What makes a city a great place to live?
The folks at Livability.com believe it largely comes down to size and affordability. Using those and a combination of other factors, Livability recently released its 2025 list of the top 100 best places to live in the United States.
Seven Northwest cities made the list, with Vancouver topping the group with a LivScore of 731. That tied the Portland suburb with Clovis, New Mexico, for 22nd on the top 100 list. (Livability said it did not rank the cities from 1 to 100, but the list can be sorted that way based on LivScore.)…